Luge
2010年2月12日 星期五
2010年2月3日 星期三
Norman Rockwell's Birthday ─ 1929 SEPS by Curtis Publishing
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter (although his Rosie was reproduced less than others of the day), Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations.
資料來源：Wikipedia ─ Norman Rockwell
2010年1月4日 星期一
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727])[1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential scientists in history. His 1687 publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually called the Principia) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the scientific revolution.
Newton also built the first practical reflecting telescope[7] and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound.
In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus. He also demonstrated the generalised binomial theorem, developed the so-called "Newton's method" for approximating the zeroes of a function, and contributed to the study of power series.
Newton remains influential to scientists, as demonstrated by a 2005 survey of members of Britain's Royal Society (formerly headed by Newton) asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton or Albert Einstein. Royal Society scientists deemed Newton to have made the greater overall contribution.[8] In 1999, leading physicists from all over the world voted Einstein "greatest physicist ever;" Newton was the runner-up.[9]
Newton was also highly religious, though an unorthodox Christian, writing more on Biblical hermeneutics and occult studies than the natural science for which he is remembered for today.
資料來源：WIKIPEDIA ── Isaac Newton
雖然認識Isaac Newton，但是我對萬有引力真的很不熟！我不想學這種困難的東西！
2009年12月21日 星期一
2009年12月15日 星期二
世界語(Esperanto)創始人柴門霍夫150週年
世界語（Esperanto）是最為廣泛使用的人工語言。波蘭眼科醫生柴門霍夫（Łazarz Ludwik Zamenhof）在對其進行了十年的創作工作後於1887年創立了這個語言的基礎。世界語的命名來自於Doktoro Esperanto（希望者醫師），這是柴門霍夫第一次出版《第一本書》（Unua Libro）時所使用的筆名。世界語的定位是國際輔助語言，不是用來代替世界上已經存在的語言。柴門霍夫的目標是創立一種簡單易學而靈活的語言，一種普世的第二語言，用來促進世界和平及國際了解。現在一些世界語者仍然抱著這樣的期望，但大多數的人只是想用它來與外國人打交道以及了解其它的國家和文化。今天，以世界語為母語的人士約1000人。能流利使用的人估計十萬到兩百萬人。
相對於其它的民族語言，世界語已經被證明是一種簡單易學的第二外語（特別是對於那些諸如英語、法語等具有許多不規則現象的語言或不是表音語言的語言來說）。也有證據表明在學習其他的第二外語之前（特別是印歐語系的語言）學習世界語有助於其他第二外語的學習，因為在學習了一門外語後再學習另一門外語會比剛學第一門外語時簡單，而對於語法簡單的輔助語的學習將有助於減少「第一外語」的學習障礙。在一個研究中，一組高中學生用一年時間學習世界語，然後用三年時間學習法語。結果是這組學生的法語掌握程度要好於沒有學習世界語而在四年間都學習法語的一組。[來源請求]
通過華盛頓大學的Sidney S. Culbert博士的研究，有1,600,000使用世界語的人達到了相當的水平。[來源請求]這個數字只限於那些「專業精通」的世界語者人群中（擁有實際的除了問候和簡單的片語的以外的會話能力）。這個研究並不是針對世界語的，而是對世界上大多數的語言所進行的研究。這個數字也被Almanac World Book of Facts和Ethnologue所引用。假設這個數字是正確的，這就意味著世界人口中的大約0.03%人使用著這種語言，迄今仍遠沒有達到柴門霍夫的使它成為世界通用語的目標。人類學家也宣稱世界上有大約200-2000的世界語第一語者，據稱貨幣投機家喬治·索羅斯也是世界語母語使用者。[來源請求]
在2002年的5月3日，維基百科的世界語版本曾成為維基百科中的第四大語言版本。2005年8月為止，它是第十五大的語言版本。（皆以條目數量計算）
1964年的Angoroj是第一部使用世界語拍攝的電影。1965年，由威廉·夏特納主演的Incubus是唯一一部知名的完全使用世界語的長片。
資料來源：世界語──Wikipedia
2009年12月9日 星期三
2009年12月5日 星期六
Mariah Carey - I Want To Know What Love Is
I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
I can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me
Let's talk about love
I wanna know what love is, the love that you feel inside
I want you to show me, and I'm feeling so much love
I wanna feel what love is, no, you just cannot hide
I know you can show me, yeah
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